The Problem of Unicorn Epicycles

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At that point all you're doing is failing to commit to writing original fiction, by using a few names and maybe a few setting mechanics general enough to count more as tropes, from something popular and putting them on your own setting, tour own characters, and your own story. That's just authorial cowardice, and/or the literary equivalent of click-baiting to get people to look at it under the pretense that it's about something they know they like.